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brb said:
So you become a billioanaires play thing until they get bored of you or strip you of all your assets. It's like my club, fans will enjoy the ride, but the penny will drop one day that the American owner aint making any money, so what's the plan, why would anyone invest in a club to incur financial loses - but fans aint got no brains these days, as long as there is a silver pot, they are happy. I get it's a long term project with objectives, but what if it fails, how big will the fall out be. I think Southend United have got 42 days left to sort their shhite out, otherwise their season might not be starting.
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This Saudi League is the least sustainable thing I have ever seen, they have set a precedent now that you go there for big bucks, I mean BIG BUCKS. Jordan Henderson on 700k a ****ing week man, utter idiocy.

Which is laughable, as the PIF rep over there said that they DIDN'T want to set a precedent that you go there for just the money. Then they sign a load of has beens for insane amounts of money, and ****ing Ruben Neves of all people who just spent half a season in a relegation scrap.

Is the logic here that if this continues, young lads in Amsterdam playing for Ajax Jong are going to think to themselves "wow, one day I can play for Al Afikikiki like my heroes..."
 
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Welshie said:
This Saudi League is the least sustainable thing I have ever seen, they have set a precedent now that you go there for big bucks, I mean BIG BUCKS. Jordan Henderson on 700k a ****ing week man, utter idiocy.

Which is laughable, as the PIF rep over there said that they DIDN'T want to set a precedent that you go there for just the money. Then they sign a load of has beens for insane amounts of money, and ****ing Ruben Neves of all people who just spent half a season in a relegation scrap.

Is the logic here that if this continues, young lads in Amsterdam playing for Ajax Jong are going to think to themselves "wow, one day I can play for Al Afikikiki like my heroes..."
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I know, Henderson ffs, exactly what I thought <laugh>

We've been trying to export the game to the US for decades, Beckham has spent big bucks out there, the bit the Saudi's have missed is it never works, from the days of George Best and Rodney Marsh, they all come back home eventually, and once the Saudi's kop an eye of Henderson, they will realise they've been done.
 
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Sucky said:
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Snap their hands off for 10m
Big chunk off the wagebill too.

Thats possibly our captain and vice captain off in the same window which I'm not sure about really.

But 10m for us for a 33yr old is a no brainer.

And 700k pw for hendo is also a no brainer.

Out of the blue this one.


Also reports that weve had a saudi bid of 40m for Fabinho too
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They've been great but can no longer back up their attitude with a performance. We will need to buy if he goes though.
 
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brb said:
I know, Henderson ffs, exactly what I thought <laugh>

We've been trying to export the game to the US for decades, Beckham has spent big bucks out there, the bit the Saudi's have missed is it never works, from the days of George Best and Rodney Marsh, they all come back home eventually, and once the Saudi's kop an eye of Henderson, they will realise they've been done.
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The Saudi's think they're onto a winner because the US league system is ****ing gash, it turns people off their game. So the Saudi's have copy and pasted the European style, but they're surrounded by nations with absolutely no talent nor any desire to focus billions upon billions of dollars on a game of football. So, they will eventually want in on our CL competition, which just won't happen.

It works in Europe and South America because it's a collection of nations all together absolutely mental about football, it's the number one sport across both continents. But, who are Al Hilal going to play if get first in the league? in the Asian CL final for example? Baghdad AFC?
 
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Welshie said:
The Saudi's think they're onto a winner because the US league system is ****ing gash, it turns people off their game. So the Saudi's have copy and pasted the European style, but they're surrounded by nations with absolutely no talent nor any desire to focus billions upon billions of dollars on a game of football. So, they will eventually want in on our CL competition, which just won't happen.

It works in Europe and South America because it's a collection of nations all together absolutely mental about football, it's the number one sport across both continents. But, who are Al Hilal going to play if get first in the league? in the Asian CL final for example? Baghdad AFC?
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Citizen Kane. said:
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It's so blatantly obvious that will be the next step

it can get to ****

if Newcastle ever went for it, I'd be disgusted and they can rot in **** hell with the rest of them
 
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Welshie said:
The Saudi's think they're onto a winner because the US league system is ****ing gash, it turns people off their game. So the Saudi's have copy and pasted the European style, but they're surrounded by nations with absolutely no talent nor any desire to focus billions upon billions of dollars on a game of football. So, they will eventually want in on our CL competition, which just won't happen.

It works in Europe and South America because it's a collection of nations all together absolutely mental about football, it's the number one sport across both continents. But, who are Al Hilal going to play if get first in the league? in the Asian CL final for example? Baghdad AFC?
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To be honest I know nothing of the Saudi's to know what their intentions are, I'm all a bit bemused by it all at the moment. I know whatever has been attempted in North America has generally failed in the past, do the Tampa Bay Rowdies even still exist, that's how bad it was. Beckham invents a Miami club that copies who was it AC or Inter, don't know what the outcome of that little legal dispute was. I just don't see where the Saudi's are going with this, trouble is with someone like Gerrard, the scouser in him will just sell you dummies.
 
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Welshie said:
The Saudi's think they're onto a winner because the US league system is ****ing gash, it turns people off their game. So the Saudi's have copy and pasted the European style, but they're surrounded by nations with absolutely no talent nor any desire to focus billions upon billions of dollars on a game of football. So, they will eventually want in on our CL competition, which just won't happen.

It works in Europe and South America because it's a collection of nations all together absolutely mental about football, it's the number one sport across both continents. But, who are Al Hilal going to play if get first in the league? in the Asian CL final for example? Baghdad AFC?
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Well Israili teams play in the European competitions so i think we could probably make room for the Saudi champions.
 
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brb said:
To be honest I know nothing of the Saudi's to know what their intentions are, I'm all a bit bemused by it all at the moment. I know whatever has been attempted in North America has generally failed in the past, do the Tampa Bay Rowdies even still exist, that's how bad it was. Beckham invents a Miami club that copies who was it AC or Inter, don't know what the outcome of that little legal dispute was. I just don't see where the Saudi's are going with this, trouble is with someone like Gerrard, the scouser in him will just sell you dummies.
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The US project can probably be judged as a success overall though, as the general level of football across the country has gone up over the past few decades. Proof of this is the increased number of North American players who make the move to Europe at a relatively young age and make it to the absolute top. You used to get the occasional success at a middling club like Freidel or Dempsey but in recent years there's Dest, McKennie, Pulisic, Davies, David and Reyna, and as a result the national team has improved its international standings.

I think the closer equivalent was the Chinese league which also came out of absolutely nowhere and tried to buy football but quickly ran out of money and willpower before the whole project flopped. However, that project was somewhat held back by the country's stricter political controls and clubs were often at odds with the CCP, whereas the Saudi project is clearly and obviously state sponsored, as much as the EPL and whoever approved the Toon takeover would have us believe otherwise.

An International Super League is definitely the next logical step on the gravy train. I just hope the wheels come off before that happens.
 
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Diego said:
Well Israili teams play in the European competitions so i think we could probably make room for the Saudi champions.
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We could "probably" make room for any Champions you can think of, doesn't mean we should.

Israel had to leave the Asian football system and apply for UEFA because Muslim countries flat out refused to play against them, so, it's a bit different than "they just signed Jordan Henderson and Diego said so, let em in"
 
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brb said:
<laugh>

Sorry Fosse, your club aint big enough to be allowed to break the rules, you now have to join the ranks of the rest of us paupers.
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They’ll piss the championship once Wout faes and Daniel whatever his name was settle in together I believe
 
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